The 2025 Canadian Grand Prix delivered drama, redemption, heartbreak, and even a groundhog. In this episode of Trackside Tea, we dive into George Russell’s flawless win, the explosive McLaren teammate clash between Norris and Piastri, and Red Bull’s post-race protest. We’re also talking animals on track, surprise podiums, and what it all means for the championship. As always—no jargon, no gatekeeping, just pure F1 passion.

In This Episode:

Russell's perfect weekend & protest fallout

The Norris/Piastri collision – what really happened

Hamilton’s heartbreaking run-in

Kimi Antonelli’s debut podium

Updated championship standings

My Virtual Safety Tea roundup

TRANSCRIPT:

Hey. Hey. And welcome back to Trackside Tea, your relaxed pit stop for all things F1. No telemetry geekery, just vibes, tea, and race day emotion. I'm Rebecca.

And today, we're rolling through the unforgettable 2025 Canadian Grand Prix. A race packed with redemption, crashes, controversy, and, yes, even a groundhog cameo. Poor little thing.

Russell's redemption. Let's start with the big headline. George Russell took his first win of 2025, pretty much controlling the race from start to finish.

He was very cool, calm, and collected. He was basically very George. Mercedes overall pulled off an epic race among a race full of drama. He took pole to start with this year, as he did last year, but this definitely worked out better for him this time around. He was in the lead for the majority of the race and only dropped down when he needed to go and get his tyres done, and then he just sped back up into the first place again.

Now Max came second, but Red Bull wasn't ready to give up first so easily. They filed a protest claiming George Russell drove erratically under the safety car and was very unsportsmanship like. That's quite a long word, isn't it? Unsportsmanship.

George said he broke where he did for two reasons.

One, to keep to the needed gap between himself and the safety car. It's safety after all. And secondly, to keep temperature of his brakes and tires, which is nothing new or unusual, and it's done by all the drivers when they're following the safety car and should always be expected by the car behind. And what he stated over the radio about Max overtaking him, saying, Max has just overtaken me, was nothing more than a fact. It was clear and concise and nothing else.

It's not like he was saying, oh my god. Max has overtaken me. He should get into trouble. He just stated, Max has overtaken.

But the stewards looked into it and called both drivers and teams up, but eventually dismissed the complaint.

Russell's cool by the book safety car pacing stood its ground. So basically, a clean, calm, cool performance from George Russell capped off with a win on track and the result doubly confirmed of it off track by the stewards. Thank you very much.

On another side, I've just realised I do it here too. When I'm talking about the drivers, I'll sometimes use their first name and sometimes their second. And then when it gets really confusing is if I'm talking about two drivers at the same time and I use things like oh, I say things like Max and Russell had a disagreement and that mixes them up, and then it's really confusing. So I'm sorry if I confuse anybody out there. I'll try and use both names maybe or just one. Either way, it can be very confusing, so I do apologise.

Anyway, how many times can I say anyway in a sentence there? Crikey.

McLaren Mayhem. Not far behind that calm and coolness of George came total chaos. Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, teammates and the two championship front runners collided with just four laps left to go while they were battling for fourth place.

Not even battling for first and second, it was fourth place. This then caused a safety car, which I said in the previous